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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Conspiracy

Guardian UK:  QAnon and the 'Trump coup' have more in common than you might think by Dan Brooks - Two political fantasies show how many Americans have become frustrated with democratic politics

Like QAnon, a Trump putsch held out the possibility of a righteous cleansing of Republican extremists that would reduce the hard problems of representative governance to the comparatively simple logistics of civil war. Civil war is bad, obviously, but it rewards the winners with one-party rule.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

The majority of people that call themselves Republicans these days have become increasingly Authoritarian politically. This coupled with a distaste for democracy has created a dangerous dynamic where most of them are ok with whatever needs to be done to hurt the opposition which is seen as an enemy not fellow citizens anymore. Trumpf greatly accelerated this trend over the last four years.

Jim Sande said...

Yes, a complete disdain for democracy along with a strong belief in crazed conspiracy nonsense blessed by god.